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1821 Aug. 5

Rid Yourselves

Letter 5. Continued Submission impossible

Spaniards! you will find it but too true - if you dare to look the subject in the face. You will find it but too true - on the part of the persons proposed to be kept in subjection to this dominion submission for any continuance is morally impossible Aversion unconquerable aversion is sure. The causes of it are numerous: causes, amongst which are several, any one of which would suffice for the production of the effect.

In this letter I shall proceed to enumerate them to give you a list of them: and in any space that can reasonably be allotted to one Letter out of a number, this is all that can be done. For explanation and proof I must refer you to as many succeeding Letters as there are clauses in this list. And this deduction so unpleasant is it in its nature and in its whole length this long deduction I shall put off for the present, and postpone to a sort of Appendix with which no man whose satisfaction is compleat without it, will have need to burthen himself to afflict his sensibility or burthen his memory.

It is your interest and your claim that is the direct subject object and subject of this address: that of your Ultramarian kinsmen no otherwise than in respect of the relation borne by theirs to your's: the injury /evil/ /detriment/ done by the dominion and the claim to their interest is no otherwise considered than in so far as it produces correspondent injury /evil/ to yours. Their aversion it is unconquerable and necessarily direct. But if such bring their aversion being thus unconquerable all endeavours on your part can not but be fruitless, and the whole of the blood and treasure expended in that endeavour, expended in waste.